Brandon O. Baird
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brandon O. Baird is involved.
2025 Chapter 3. Bilingualism and the assibilated /r/ in Guatemalan Spanish Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark and Amanda Dalola (eds.), pp. 69–95 | Chapter
This study sociophonetically analyzes the assibilated /r/ in Guatemalan Spanish among bilinguals of Spanish and K’iche’, which also has a voiceless assibilated /r/ in word-final position. Results reveal that their Spanish assibilated /r/ is always voiceless, is limited to word-final position,… read more
2023 Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan Spanish Spanish in Context 20:3, pp. 599–625 | Article
Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact with Mayan languages. However, whereas most studies have focused on the structural outcomes of Spanish-Mayan contact, fewer studies have analyzed how native Guatemalans socially perceive these features and, by… read more
2020 Chapter 3. The vowel spaces of Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 63–82 | Chapter
The point vowels /i, a, u/ serve to mark the extremes of the acoustic vowel space; however, previous experimental research on K’ichee’ has shown that the acoustic location of point vowels varies according to the vowel inventory of the specific dialect of K’ichee’. The present study analyzes the… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 149–174 | Chapter
This chapter presents a case of prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ (Mayan) bilinguals from two communities in Guatemala: Nahualá and Cantel. Specifically, it analyzes the use of duration to mark contrastive focus in both Spanish and K’ichee’. The results of a production task demonstrate that… read more